Adam Wingard, the director of Netflix’s live action Death Note movie, has deleted his Twitter account after being deluged with death threats and insults, unsurprisingly pouring in even before the script was written.

Devoted fans of the Death Note series who had been vocal about how much they despise Netflix’s “interpretation” were also flinging insults at the director, prompting him into foolishly defending himself against the rabid masses, a bad idea on his part as it resulted in him being hit with an even greater abundance of hate.

Some of Adam Wingard’s tweets toward his aggressors:

The grotesque personal attacks and death threats from all the anonymous assailants apparently ended up proving too much for the director as he then deleted his Twitter account, which will no doubt be regarded as a “victory” amongst Death Note purists everywhere…

I watched the Ghost in the Shell movie, and couldn't disagree more. It wasn't as bad as either of the other examples, but it was a far cry from actually resembling GiTS in anything more than aesthetic. It might be more subtle for some, but the entire tone and message of the story, along with The Majors rehashed origin and personality, was all backwards. It is a classic case of Holywood misunderstanding the deeper intricacies of a work, and predictably dumbing it down into what was essentially a generic mistreated super soldier plot with the perspective that technology and change is scary.

Its amazing how every person who fails to make a movie or other media is "attacked" just in time for sjw idiots to rush in and buy their shit to support them. Its almost like its a ploy to save failure.

You know, I wouldn't be shocked if this turned out to be true. Fake trolling to drive sympathy buys seems like a workable ploy.

If marketers could find a way to virally create profit this way, I think we would start seeing more, and done on PURPOSE. I'm not kidding. Read some uncensored history books and you'll see that big groups with lots of money do all kinds of shady things, not just historically, but in the near term and even in the present.

Look at how Russia used fake news and political groups on Facebook and other media to manipulate US voting for instance. The news of that gets worse every time they find something new.

I would have been able to accept it better that way yeah. If it wasn't pretending to be L vs Light, and instead openly claimed to be 'Dumb-American-Teen' vs 'Oddball-highly-emotional-detective-guy', then most of my criticisms wouldn't exist. It'd still be a weaker story, since the so-called "Light" character was just far too weak to drive a good suspense thriller, but at least I wouldn't have been watching through with this feeling of "This is all wrong. All wrong".

I was fine with them moving the setting to the US. It made perfect sense regarding all the typical complaints about casting white actors on Asian characters. Making all the -characters- American, rather than just the actors, was a good call. But re-writing their entire personality, was not. A proper localised spin should have had Light as still being an honors student prodigy, but lined up for Harvard or such instead. L should of still had the same low emotion mannerisms, etc.

I'm serious. It's a completely pointless cesspool of whining and self-righteous aggression. Just post your news announcements on an accessible website and leave the feedback for your forums. You will never get anything of worth from Twitter.

what a bunch of flaming faggots, to get so worked up. I haven't seen it but it's probably not that bad. (They started threats before it was released). Yea I hold up Death note up pretty high, but no matter what, it's still an anime/manga. It's children to teenager material. yea it's pretty mature but you have problems if you need to take it so serious. No, These are just fucking trolls with empty threats. Such unimportant people.

He did it because he believes he lost.
An artist hated by everyone is not going to improve, he has absolutely no chance at being successful at this point.

He got baited into being a scapegoat to Americans constant attempt to take down successful anime franchises and their authors, Americans can't handle being inferior to Japanese, whom they tried to domesticate after the war, which turned against them. Their pride will not let them stop at anything to butcher great titles and turn the attention from Japanese Anime to shitty American productions.

Over the few years we had several American adaptations to anime, Dragon Ball was a successful failure, Street Fighter as well, Ghost in the Shell doesn't even need to be mentioned, lots of money poured in to make a simple plot understood for american utterly stupid society (they dumbed down what was not even complex) and then they go with Death Note, by adapting it to be a complete and utter shit. Not to mention their constant Fap Material Godzila attempts and Power Rangers.

Simply put, American Pride is more important than showing how stupid they are.

Adam Wingard should have never done Death Note in the first place, it's not just haters gonna hate, I didn't like original Death Note myself, that alone gives me teh right to say, Americans should never adapt stories from Japan or other countries, their interpretations of the stories they adapt, are never good.
And that's because they want to let their citizens understand it outright, which is another way to control the masses, because if you don't let people think for themselves, you get a bunch of slaves.

Good that he deleted the account, his career is now over. I won't see his name anywhere again, good riddance, he should open a supermarket someplace and sit behind cash register for the rest of his life.

You're a fool if you think the twitter kids throwing tantrums represent even a slight majority. Believe it or not, most people don't throw a fit every time something doesn't go their way. His career is going to be fine.

Indeed, if you are not good with something shitty there is a very simple solution that lot of people seem to miss, DO NOT FUCKING WATCH IT, do not watch it, do not support it, do not post about it, do not even dowload it for free.

If you don't like something but support it in any way and make a fuss over it you are just helping it, the best thing with this works is completly ignore them at all levels.